Government cynically seeks asylum from the judiciary when it comes to refugees

The government's recent announcement that the few asylum seekers on Australian soil will have their support cut off seems needlessly cruel. But it is actually part of a considered plan to avoid judicial responsibility.

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Assume for a moment that Peter Dutton, the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, is not a cruel and heartless man who derives pleasure from persecuting the unfortunate. Assume also that the Turnbull government is not so morally debased that its cabinet would sit around discussing what new torture it might inflict on boat people purely as a tactic of distraction, a morsel of red meat for the Murdoch press and shock jocks to noisily chew.

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The same routine as for Save The Children and for their ex-staff. It wouldn’t matter quite so much if they were not purportedly doing this on our behalf. Why does a sovereign state need to settle out of court with anyone; what are they hiding?

The Legal profession should not be at all surprised that J Edgar Tuber regards their conduct in upholding the rule of law as ‘unAustralian’; he was after all a member of the Queensland pleece before being having his collar felt for higher (sic) honours. Yet another indication that he and his ilk no longer regard the rest of us as citizens rather subjects.

Krudd might argue with this: “[t]he Coalition’s sole unarguable policy achievement after five years in power is that it stopped the boats.” More accurately, perhaps, “[t]he Coalition’s sole unarguable policy achievement after five years in power is that the boats stopped whilst it was in office.”

And on NZ as a possible destination for the Manus/Nauru prisoners, now more than ever we cannot deal with the Kiwis because of their part in the international conspiracy to undermine the Australian government, as rumbled by Julie “Nancy Drew” Bishop.